Thanks. I didnt fancy doing a factory reset as I would then have to setup everything else again. However I did find details elsewhere on this forums of how to use curl to reboot the vbox so have set my plex server to initiate a vbox reboot every day so hopefully that will improve stability.

I have got the "Streamer service is not running" error a bit recently and the first I know about it is when I want to watch a recording i scheduled in plex and find it didn't work. Can I be notified about it going down somehow? Maybe I can schedule a script on my windows Plex server to run every hou...

I have bought a Plex pass for a month so I can trial Plex DVR and have installed the Plex server on my very underpowered Atom-based stick PC. I have to say I am very impressed so far, it has the interface I had hoped for from the native Vbox apps. The EPG channel grid is good (although currently onl...

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond, it has definitely been very helpful. It does all sound pretty hopeful for Plex, I will dust the Lenovo stick PC off and press it into use as a Plex media server when I next get the chance. Fingers crossed...
Thanks again for your reply.
Simon

OK I have done some research and you seem to know a bit about Plex so I will ask a few questions here if you don’t mind…. Basically what I want to achieve is to use a nice to navigate EPG to setup recordings of live TV, I do not wish to record in HD, SD will be perfectly fine for me (I would like th...

I thought the vbox would be the Plex server? Are you saying you need a separate server? I guess I would also need to pay for a Plex pass subscription to use the recording abilities? I don't know much about Plex.